Samuel J. Palmisano Quotes

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

– Samuel J. Palmisano

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers’ industries.

– Samuel J. Palmisano

Tech never comes back the same.

– Samuel J. Palmisano

IBM isn’t investing billions of dollars every year into research and development – and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade – as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

– Samuel J. Palmisano

Smarter is always the answer.

– Samuel J. Palmisano

If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy – or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society – that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

– Samuel J. Palmisano

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it’s in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

– Samuel J. Palmisano

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